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Pioneer Tales
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Extract from: Pioneer Tales by Jane Turner and Bob Jardine
I think what we have here in M.K. is a very good piece of landscaping, now we need some houses to follow. There are no real houses, they're terrible places. Have you seen this new estate? Boxes with houses painted on them to make it look like they've got wooden beams. They look like Elizabethan manors, but when you get close you can see that it's all shit. It's all made of shit. My son came to visit, he saw these and said:"What on earth are they doing over there? Is that a film set?" I couldn't believe that, I said:"That's a place where people are going to live." And it's the same all over. If you go to that village, Little Woolstone I think it's called, it's a very good concept, they've made it look like an old English villge but everything's too small. They've done what film people do, they've scaled everything down to save cost. They've cheated like they cheated Portmeirion, the village in 'The Prisoner'... - Jack Trevor Story, Writer
Liz's (Liz Leyh, artist in residence) contract with the Development Corporation ended in August 1978 and when I joined the November before, the concrete cows were already on the go. Really they were her parting gift to the city. I don't think they were designed to bring world renown to Milton Keynes. I think she did them as a bit of a joke and because once cows grazed on the fields that the city was being built on. I can't remember the exact reasons, it was a long time ago. Concrete is actually used a lot as its cheap, versatile, quick and very durable and you can paint it bright colours. You couldn't do bronze play sculptures. - Lesley Bonner, Community Artist.
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Current Project
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Milton Keynes Football Project
Funded by a 'Your Heritage' Lottery grant this project will collect personal testimonies, photographs and memorabilia to document the history of football in Milton Keynes over the last 100 years. The primary source material collected will be used to create a website, exhibition, book and digital stories. more |
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